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Luzer Twersky in "No Name Restaurant." (Courtesy Menemsha Films)
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Carmel Jewish film fest features Jews in Sweden, in space and beyond

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 16, 2025October 16, 2025
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Holocaust survivors Esther and Zygmunt Binder, the author's parents, in Detroit in 1975. (Courtesy)
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Nazi loyalists in Mecklenburg, Germany read news about the upcoming parliamentary elections, summer 1932. A campaign poster for Hitler is at rear. (German Federal Archives/Wikimedia Commons)
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‘Never Again Is Now’ series in San Jose features Ken Burns’ doc and ‘Denial’

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